Necktie



Mgrch 4, 1941.

F. P. MUHLHAUSER NECKTIE Filed Aug. 30, 1940 Patented Mar. 4, 1 947signor, by mesne assignments, to Cravats, Rochester, N. Y., acopartnership con- Superba sisting of Herman M. Cohn, Julian Wiley, Sn,Harold Shrier; Harry S. (John, Irving Lerner,.

Julian Wiley, Jr

Muhlhauser W. Lewine, and said Application August 30, 194.0, Serial No.354,845-

12 Claims. (Cl. 2-146) This invention relates to four-in-hand neckties:

It is the main object of the present invention to provide an improvedfour-in-hand' necktie having a lining member which will cause thenecktie todrape attractively when tied in the usual manner.

It is a further object of the invention to provide alining member thatwill not create unsightly bulges in the necktie when the necktie isdisplayed on a store counter and which will cause a major portion of thegathered material resulting in and immediately below the knot when thenecktie is tied, to fall into a single central crease or dimple.

These and other objects of. the invention will appear from the detaileddescription and claims when taken with the drawing in which:

- Fig. I is a perspective view of a four-i'n-hand necktie made inaccordance with the present invention, a portion of the front face ofthe necktie envelope being broken away to show the co-nstruction of themodified lining. memberp Fig. 2 is a fragmentary front view of thenecktie of the present invention illustrating the drape effect obtainedwhen the necktie is tied;

Fig. Sis a transverse section through the wide or tying'en'd' of anecktiemade in accordance with the present invention, the. section beingtaken on a line corresponding to line 3'-3. of'Fig.'1;

Fig. 4 is. a. transverse section taken substantially on the line fi--4of Fig. 2f;

Fig;,5v is a front face view of a portion of. the wide end of a lining.member used in. the necktie of the presentinventifon, and illustrating.an, in-- termediate stage in the manufacture thereof-i.

Fig; 6 is a view similar to Fig. but. showing.

the completed lining member ready to be enclosed in a necktie envelope.of conventionalfconstruction;

Figs. 7, and 8' are views corresponding. to Figs. 5,

occurs in the lining memberin and immediately 7 below the necktie knotas. the necktie: is being.

tied; and

Fig. 16 is a transverse section taken substantially on the line I 6l=6of Fig". 8.

Referring to the drawings and particularlyto Fig. 1, there is. shown: afour-in-hand necktiegenerally indicated 5 comprising a tie. envelope &having a lining member 1- enclosed therein. The lining member may bemade of the usual fabrics employed for necktie linings: and preferablyextends throughout substantially the entire length 1 of the necktieenvelope. The envelope 6- and lining member I are preferably cuton thebias to provide a resilient construction.

The necktie envelope may be made of the usual tie fabrics and finishedin the usual manner. However, itis proposed to' modify the lining member1 so that the tie will automatically creaseor dimple concavely along acentral longitudinal line in thefront face thereof at the knot regionwhen tied as shown at 8 in Figs. 2 and 4.

In Fig. 5 where a fragment only of the resiliient" or elastic liningmember T is shown, it will be noted a pair of resilient strips 9 ofbias-cut fabric or other elastic material arelaidfiat on the lining andstitched or otherwise suitably secured at their ends to the lining asi'ndic'aated at H1 These resilient or elastic strips are then spreadapart between their fixed ends as shown in Fig. 6 and secured in thisstressed condition to the lining l as by thestitching N. If desiredinstead of using stitching I0 and H, the strips 9 may be 'secured to thelining member by any suitable means such as by an adhesive.

It will be understood that the strips 9'- are resilient and thereforetend to assume-the straight condition shown in Fig. 5. Consequentlysince the strips are-stressed laterally when secured to the liningmember inthe manner described above they'will tend to bow the lining Tslightly. This bowing produces a very slightconcavity in the l frontface of the lining but which is so slight that it does not interferewith the flat" appearance of the necktie when displayed on a storecounter. However, when thenecktie is stressed longitudinally as whenpulling; the knot of: the

necktie tight the strips 9 substantially straighten out and increasethisbowing effect and cause the lining l to; crease or dimple betweenthe strips as shown; at l2 in Fig. 1.4.. The tendency: for the liningmember to crease in this: manner is further increased by theconstrictive force exert'e'd" by, the knotof' the, tie. as it decreasesin size to compress thefront end. of the tie. which extends through theknot. Since the lining will already have begun to bow or crease betweenthe strips 9, the further creasing action by the knot will also belocalized between the strips. When the necktie has been tied the liningwill have been deformed into the shape substantially shown in Figs. 4and 15, the rearwardly curved portions I3 resulting from the fact thatthe lining is so much wider than the width of the knot that a portion ofthe edges of the lining may be turned toward the back of the knot. Thefront face of the tie envelope 'will follow the crease in the liningmember so that it will have a corresponding crease or dimple thereinsimilar to the lining member as best seen in Figs.

2 and 4.

In Figs. '7 and 8 there has been shown a slightly modified form of theinvention. Instead of using the rectangular strips9, resilient strips I5are provided which have a concave outer edge I6 (Fig. 7). The strips I5are first laid fiat on the lining member and secured thereto along theirends in any suitable manner as by adhesive or stitching I! (Fig. '7).The strips are then pulled laterally until their concave edges I6 arealined with the side edges of the lining member I as shown in Fig. 8..Longitudinal stitching or the like I8, maintains the strips I5 in thislaterally stressed position on the lining I. It 'will be noted that as aH result of thelateral stressing of the strips I5 the normally straightedges I9 (Fig. 7) are now curved i (Fig. 8) and provide a spacetherebetween which cave ed es 22'and alongitudinal slit 2!! is securedto the lining member I in a manner similar to that described above. Thepiece 2| is first laid fiat on the lining l (Fig. 9) and secured theretoat its ends as indicated at 23. The piece 2| is then stretched laterallyto bring the concave edges 22 into alinement with the edges of thelining I and secured thereto asindicated at 24 (Fig.

. To simplify the manufacture of the piece II it will be appreciatedthat the slit may extend to one end of the piece if desired so that theslit may be made by means of scissors or the like, inwardly from oneend. v

The same creasing or dimpling effect of the tie can be obtained bycutting the lining member in the manner illustrated in Fig. 11. In theknot region of the tie the opposite edges of the resilient lining memberIa are cut out as shown at 25 and a central slit provided as indicatedat 26. A resilient piece 2'1 which may be slightly longer than the slit26 and having tapered side edges 28 which form a continuation of thetapered side edges 29 of the lining member when superposed thereon issuitably securedto the under side of the lining as indicatedat 30 inFig. 11. The lining member la is then stretched laterallytobring theconcave edges 25 into alinement with the straight edges of the'liningmember as shown in Fig. 12 and secured to the piece 21 as indicated at3I. This modified lining member will crease or dimple in the same mannerasthe previously described lining membersalthough it will be understoodthat the crease will form in the piece 21. While the invention has beendescribed mi tail it will be appreciated that various modifications ofthe invention will occur to those skilled .in the art and thesemodifications falling within lining member enclosed within saidenvelope, said lining member having a member of elastic material securedto one face thereof, one of said members including strip-like sectionssecured to the a remaining member at spaced points with the sections atsaid spaced points adjacent each other, the portion of said sectionsintermediate said points being spread apart and secured to saidremaining member.

2. A lining for neckties comprising an elastic lining member, meanssecured to said lining member for causing it to crease when the necktieis tied, said means including a piece of elastic materialsecured to saidlining member at the region.

to'be creased providing tWo plies of elastic material at said region,one of said plies being divided longitudinally into two parts throughoutat least a portion of said region and secured to the other ply with therespective parts thereof curved outward laterally toward the adjacentrespective edges of saidother ply and then inward with respect thereto.

'3. A lining for neckties comprising an elastic lining member, anelastic member including striplike sections superimposed on said liningmember with said sections extending longitudinally thereof, spaced meansfor securing the ends of said sections to said lining member with therespective ends adjacent each other, the spacing between said spacedmeans being substantially equal to the normal length of the portion ofsaid sections between said spaced means, and means for securing theportion of said sections between said spaced means to said lining memberin laterally stressed condition. a I

4. A lining for neckties comprising a bias-cut lining member, bias-cuttrips fixed at their ends to one face of said lining member with therespective ends close to each other, the portion of said stripsintermediate their fixed ends being spaced apart and secured to saidlining member in laterally distorted condition.

5. A lining for neckties comprising an elastic lining member, a piece ofelastic material secured to said lining member, said piece being dividedsubstantially centrally thereof throughout at 7 least a portion of itslength providing strip-like sections, said sections being fixedinadjacent relation at spaced points to said lining member, the portionof said sections intermediate said spaced points being separated fromeach other and being secured to said lining member in laterallydistorted condition.

6. A lining for neckties comprising an elastic lining member, elasticstrips superposed on one face of said lining member and extendinglongito said lining member, the portions of said piece at each side ofsaid slit being spread apart in the plane thereof and means extendinglongitudinally of said lining member for securing said laterally spreadportions to the lining member.

8. A lining for neckties, comprising an elastic lining member, saidmember having a longitudinal slit therein, a piece of elastic materialoverlying said slit, means for securing'said piece to said memberadjacent the ends of said slit, portions of said lining member at eachside of said slit being spread apart and secured to said piece.

9. A stage in the method of making a necktie having an elastic liningwhich comprises superimposing an elastic member on said lining member,at least a portion of one of said members being divided longitudinally,securing said members together at spaced points in unstressed condition,laterally spreading the portion of said divided member between saidspaced points to stress the same and securing said portions of saiddivided member to the remaining member in spread relation.

10. A stage in the method of making a necktie having an elastic liningmember which comprises fixing the ends of a pair of elastic strips toone face of said lining member, spreading said strips intermediate saidfixed-ends and securing said strips to said lining member in spreadrelation. c-

11. A four-in-hand necktie constructed so as to present a central dimpledirectly beneath the knot when tied, comprising in combination an outerfabric envelope having a knot-forming area, and a stretchable liner ofbias cut coarse woven fabric enclosed within said envelope, the linerincluding outer side edges and having a medial elongated aperture midwaybetween said side edges in the region of the knot-forming area of theouter envelope, leaving narrow bias cut disintegratable strips of fabricflanking said aperture, and stretch arresting means carried by the linerat opposite sides of the single aperture in substantially coextensiverelationship thereto,

said stretch arresting means being in the form of long lines ofstitching disposed in substantial parallelism with the major axis of theelongated aperture, serving also to bind the short threads of theaforesaid narrow strips of fabric which flank the aperture, thereby topreclude disintegration of the narrow strips by separation of theirconstituent short bias cut threads. I

12. A four-in-hand necktie constructed so as to present a central dimpledirectly beneath the knot when tied, comprising in combination an outerfabric envelope having a knot-forming area, and a stretchable liner ofbias cut coarse woven fabric enclosed within said envelope, thelinerincluding outer side edges and having a medial elongated aperture midwaybetween said side edges in the region of the knot-forming area of theouter envelope, leaving narrow bias cut disintegratable strips of fabricflanking said aperture, and stretch arresting means carried by the linerat opposite sides of the single aperture, said stretch arresting meansbeing in the form of long lines of stitching disposed in substantialparallelism with the major axis of the elongated aperture in flankingrelationship to said aperture and extended beyond both ends of saidaperture, the stitching being in binding relationship to the shortbiased threads of the narrow fabric strips to preclude disintegration ofthe strips by separation of their constituent shortthreads when theliner is subjected to tensile strains.

FREDERICK P. MUHLHAUSER.

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